Grant Headifen

About Grant Headifen

My vision for NauticEd is to provide the highest quality sailing and boating education available - and deliver competence wherever sailors live and go.

Entries by Grant Headifen

Sailing Around the world in… I don’t know … days

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Last weekend we met up with our friends Chris and Christine Ellsay in Nelson New Zealand. Chris and Chris, with their three kids aged 10, 8 and 6 are sailing around the world and it was refreshing to hear them say – “I don’t know how long we’ll take”. They’re 3 years into it and […]

Thanks For Referring Students to NauticEd

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NauticEd’s online sailing school recent growth spurt has been due to our students telling other students about us. So we have implemented a reward system for that awesome behavior. Introducing NauticEd’s Social Expansion Loop Program. Watch the video here. Essentially – you can now set up your own NauticEd Promocode and give it out to […]

Oh – I Do Love to be Beside the Seaside

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It’s an old song but it certainly rang the bells for me recently.  Over this last New Year’s break 2010-2011, my family, extended family, and friends that we call family all traveled to Matauri Bay in New Zealand for probably one of the best aquatic experiences one could imagine. Unfortunately, it was sans sailing cruising […]

Member Feedback makes it all worthwhile

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Here’s a great unsolicited email from a student below. Makes me all goosey that the incredible effort that we do is all worthwhile. Incredible to think that the sailing games like CatNED maneuvering game made such an impression. Certainly we advocate gaining practical experience – but it does show you what a little theory study […]

Qualified Crew Member Certification

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Here’s  an exciting addition to the NauticEd Sailing Certification system. We’ve now added a Qualified Crew Member Rank which is super easy to gain with the right education and experience. This announcement follows right on the heals of releasing the Safety at Sea course allowing for the advanced graduation to the Rank of NauticEd Captain. […]

Qualifying Experience – Sailing Certification

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Here’s an email from a student asking about qualifying experience and my answer follows. The topic is regarding what it takes to gain qualifying days to count towards your Skipper, Bareboat Charter Master and Captain Ranks. >>>> On 12/7/10 6:57 AM, “Vadim K”> wrote: Dear Colleagues, ~ 2 month ago I have opened my account […]

Press Release – New Safety at Sea Online Sailing Course

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Today, NauticEd Sailing School announced the posting of its online Safety at Sea Course. Written by Captain Ed Mapes who has logged close to 100,000 miles on the ocean, the Safety at Sea course focuses on safety and rigging issues that sailors will experience at sea. In the introduction to the sailing course, Captain Mapes […]

Press Release – NauticEd Releases Captain’s Rank

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Today, NauticEd Online Sailing School announced its release of the NauticEd Captain’s Rank. This coincides with the posting of the NauticEd Safety at Sea Course which is the final required course to attain the Sailing Certification Rank. The NauticEd Captain’s Rank focuses entirely on sailboat operations both near shore and offshore and is directed specifically […]